Keenan Wynn
Series
Criterion collection volume 821
Description
In this dark comedy, chaos erupts when a general orders an attack on the Russians, which subsequently will trigger the Russian "Doomsday Device." The President, his aides and the Pentagon struggle to find a way to stop the impending doom.
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
Where does Santa's suit come from? Why does he slide down the chimney? Why does he live at the North Pole? The answers to all these questions and the origins of our favorite holiday traditions are revealed in this classic about Kris Kringle, the world's most famous gift-giver.
Pub. Date
[2010]
Description
The Mechanic (1972, 99 min.): Arthur Bishop is a mob hit man who operates in a world of his own. He's always worked alone, but as age catches up with him, Bishop takes on a competent and ruthless apprentice and teaches him everything he knows. Together they become an unmatchable team of globe-trotting killers -- until the pupil's ruthlessness puts him on a collision course with his teacher.
Assassination (1987, 88 min.): When veteran Secret Service...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
25th anniversary ed.
Description
A lonely unicorn, believing herself to be the last, searches for any others of her kind, while avoiding the malevolent Red Bull, the agent believed to have destroyed the rest of her herd. She finally finds help from a magician named Schmendrick and a knight named Prince Lir.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
[Widescreen].
Description
Herbie rides again: Herbie, the "Love Bug" takes to the hills of San Francisco in an attempt to protect a kindly grandmother and her home from a ruthless business magnate.
Herbie goes to Monte Carlo: Upon entering a Paris-to-Monte Carlo road race, Herbie falls hood over wheels in love when he encounters a sleek, sporty, light-blue Lancia. Herbie also has a gang of jewel thieves after him to retrieve the stolen gem they've hidden in his gas tank....
Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
Show boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not knowing she is pregnant.
Annie get your gun: Annie Oakley...